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• Post #4499548

  It seems pretty clear to me, being able to test iPadOS beside macOS, that even with macOS 27 the Liquid Glass UI is never going to look as good as it does on a HDR OLED display. It looks several times glossier and more crisp when I switch my desktop monitor over to HDR (which I never use), and even better still on the iPad's OLED. This feels like a generational shift as big as the Retina Display, and I think most people are oblivious to it — since no Mac currently comes with a HDR OLED scree...

• Post #4381501

  Got hands-on on a Samsung Fold 8, and I regret to inform you that the screen still feels like cheap plastic and you can still feel the crease very distinctly, even on a 'new' unit. If this is the kind of thing Apple is about to ship, if they haven't got some miracle crease-cure and glass-feeling display, for $2,500, then I honestly don't think they should ship. The technology doesn't make up for the feel. Foldables are still theoretical to most customers; buyer's remorse...

• Post #4215347

  What do you meaaaan a Raspberry Pi now costs £300

• Post #3984051

  Oof, macOS 27's Mission Control has been hit with behavioral changes in beta 4 that have ruined the way I use macOS 🫠 It also feels really janky, like they're trying to sneak out a SwiftUI rewrite in a beta 4

• Post #3974891

  Little bit of @OpenSCAD@floss.social and a Bambu, and I have the perfect configurable movement tray generator for Warhammer Fantasy / The Old World

• Post #3836028

  Linus Torvalds: "And no, that's not the position of the Linux kernel. I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/

• Post #3811150

  So it turns out you can just hand a photograph of something to an AI like Tripo, and it will just spit out a viable 3D recreation 👀 Found this great little watchtower outpost thing on Pinterest, generated a mesh from it, and spent the evening learning how to use Blender enough to slice it up and make it printable, as an experiment. Only have access to the free mode, so the mesh is a bit blobby, but I'm very interested to see if it prints. Another alarming and problematic superpower of the AI...

• Post #3764032

  Not updated for today's release of Codex GPT 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna: Xcode

• Post #3763442

  The chat experience *is* ChatGPT. Now it's squirreled away in a sub section of a sub pane inside a vastly more-complex app. It's hard to imagine anybody who actually wants to use ChatGPT wants to use it this way, Electron or not. And as a Codex user, I resent having my Codex deleted and renamed 'ChatGPT' instead. I don't want my 'chats' anywhere near my 'work'. This feels like a stupid move that will decimate casual ChatGPT desktop usage

• Post #3697772

  Speaking of gamedev studios that need a shakeup, what the heck has Mojang been doing for ten years? They hired some of the hottest Minecraft mod developers making the coolest things, and… did nothing with them? Minecraft had so much potential — top Minecraft mods birthed entire multimillion-dollar game genres, like Factorio and its ilk — but the actual dev team has wasted their time building and adding one cute animal a year. Minecraft could have been an engine for an entire industry of games

• Post #3635742

  A new Markdown editor for the Mac Plus written by @ActionRetro@bitbang.social (with Claude). LLMs are incredible at working on retro computing projects — it can write a 1984-era Macintosh Toolbox app in Pascal as easily as an iPad app in Swift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheu_r9UGw

• Post #3559228

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nicoreese/116855951140127214 Liquid Glass on the Mac was designed for HDR/OLED displays (but don't say that to the pundits https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/11/gurman-on-macos-27-ui-and-vision-roadmap)

• Post #3494186

  "We require all code to be human authored. AI assistance should be limited to menial things (like code completion, regex, or find and replace)." Godot's updated Contribution Policy. My take: saying this kind of thing in 2026, when effectively the entire industry has already moved to using LLM-based agents as the primary IDE, is really naive. 'Code completion' was three years ago. You're only setting yourself up for having to walk this back later https://godotengine.o...

• Post #3437844

  'What are you blowing all your Codex tokens on anyway?' Just having a bit of fun 🤷‍♂️

• Post #3407641

  "Has anybody ported swift-embedded to the Macintosh 128K yet?" Yes, apparently. Well that's one less thing I have to do 😂 https://github.com/DominoTree/modern-m68k-toolchains/

• Post #3402615

  Instead of playing with any shiny new WWDC26 APIs, maybe we developers all need to start running our apps through Instruments and make drastic reductions to their RAM profiles? I think we're going to need to savor every byte we get for the next few years 🥲

• Post #3401852

  There is a pile of new AppIntent-based APIs to make your apps' content available to Siri AI, but it doesn't seem like there's any way at all to actually debug what Siri is seeing or doing with it. And since you never know whether you have an app intent failure, or Siri's LLM has decided just not to use it when queried, this stuff feels like a mess to figure out. I wish there were some kind of debug commandline interface to Siri that scopes purely to the actions available to your...

• Post #3308818

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@_inside/116742529849306484 First casualty of Apple's 2M downloads account cutoff right out of the gate — indie dev can't even use Private Cloud Compute. /Make it a per-app limit, at the least, and/or on a rolling basis/

• Post #2832043

  The mourning has already started for Destiny and, by extension, Bungie. Starting on a D3 now means we probably wouldn't see it for 3–4 years or more, which would mean Bungie has to survive on what's left of D2 and Marathon income (which is already deep in the red), on what is already a stripped-down development team after the previous round of layoffs, and already subject to massive writedowns for Sony. It's not looking good. Skeleton crew and Destiny Classic? Spin off...

• Post #2832042

  The latest tranche of UAP documents provides overwhelming evidence that there are 2–5m-ish spherical objects moving in our atmosphere (and into/out of our oceans) effectively all the time, giving off light and heat, moving unimpeded at high speeds, and exhibiting flocking behavior, captured on video with state of the art military video and sensing equipment. What they are or what they mean beyond that, 🤷‍♂️ But it seems we're well beyond the point of belief/disbelief. They just 'ar...

• Post #2832041

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116619922432873678 They made the mistake of releasing an image of the audio spectrum of the recordings, and it was immediately reverse-engineered into actual (disturbing) audio of the last moments before (and during) crash

• Post #2832040

  The Destiny 2 fans-in-mourning and the Marathon fans are in a review bomb battle for the ages https://www.ign.com/articles/destiny-players-review-bomb-marathon-only-to-be-met-with-countercampaign-from-bungie-fans?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

• Post #2832039

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/116628156172886406 If you're spending more on Claude than you're making from it, you too are a statistic 😂

• Post #2365799

  If it already pushed the PS6 back two years, this rampocalypse may just mean the next Xbox never ships. I'm not convinced the Xbox brand will even last long enough for a next-gen console; feels like the end of the runway

• Post #2365798

  https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/

• Post #2229399

  Whomever named the UISplitViewController columns and display modes has a screw loose. It didn't make sense before, and it doesn't make sense now that the order is inverted in iOS 26 either. Just call a sidebar a sidebar!

• Post #2229395

  I'm excited for a new era at Apple. I'm very wary of this new era doubling-down on all the things I think it should change, and locking in its faults for another decade or two

• Post #2190737

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116487146485938377 I do wonder just how many long-yearned-for apps or games might come to other platforms like this did, with the use of agentic programming. The old technology barriers are crashing down hard "Andrey started the Notepad++ for Mac project in March 2026 to close a twenty-year gap […] The port is written in Objective-C++ on top of Scintilla and Cocoa (the "right way" instead of a Wine wrapper), and multi-agent AI d...

• Post #2190736

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/116489868897208529 This is the first mention I've seen that suggests that the upcoming AirPods-with-cameras will be used to enable Vision-Pro-style hand gestures on other devices, and if that's true, it could be incredible

• Post #2190734

  So much of what Codex is doing should be built-in to Apple's own workflows, in the OS and Xcode. But Apple is so far behind that we're really starting to get a runaway snowball effect. Two years ago, there was thought to be no moat around generative AI, but the moats are rapidly getting deeper and deeper today, and Apple is outsourcing to Google — whose AI isn't even in the conversation for Apple users or developers now — because they were too cheap to pay for either of...